Friday, May 27, 2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

[whispering] Right, then. Listen, guys. I know some of you might be "concerned" that your bride-to-be has had wedding cake in the past. And yes, she probably has!

Hey, some girls have had lots of wedding cake.

And sure, ok, maybe they were fairly large cakes.

Maybe they were even huge cakes.

But that doesn't mean she won't be satisfied with a perfectly average-sized cake!

(Ok, you can't see her face - but I'm sure she's thrilled.)

So even if your wedding cake seems a bit small and overgrown...

Or perhaps leans to the right...

Or even has a little trouble staying upright...

...the important thing is to remember that your bride loves you, no matter what. The cakes of the past are the cakes of the past! No matter how massive and sweeping and awe-inspiring they may have been.

Bwahahaha. It's not the size of your wedding cake, it's what you do with it. Do not mash it into a woman's face, nor should you share it with too many people. Hey, I love big wedding cakes, but I like cupcakes just as much, maybe more. When it's in a small package, the baker tends to put more thought into it.

Wow. Who gets to climb to the top of those cakes to fetch the last piece. I agree SuBee, it does look like tip-it. But when I saw it, I was mostly just picturing an America's Funniest Video's moment of disastrous proportions.

My sister's getting married this weekend, so I was planning to send her a link if any cakewrecks this week were wedding related. However, now that I've seen it, I don't think I'm comfortable sending it to her (or especially to her groom). Very funny, though!

Having created a few wedding cakes in my nefarious past, I cna guarantee that there is definitely some envy going on..and the size of the cake is the least of it..but funny, funny post...especially that last one that seems to be almost orgasmic in its fog o' love...tough to compete with that one...

This is even funnier b/c of an inside joke among some of my guy friends that you should never let your bride eat wedding cake, because she'll only want to, erm, get fiesty on the wedding night, and NEVER AGAIN. lol

I am just wondering when it became necessary for cakemeisters to have a degree in civil engineering. I mean, just LOOK at the size of those cakes! What goes into keeping some of those humongous ones upright? Do they build them onsite? Do you need a building permit? (And what about...Naomi?)

I like only just discovered this blog, and I've gotta say, this is hilarious! XDI actually saw some little cupcake monstrosities in my local bakery; they were covered in icing that had been molded into looking like a dog, and then someone plopped a graduation hat on 'em. I wish I took a picture!

It is a little known bit of Hollywood trivia that, on the old "Honeymooners" show, when Jackie Gleason used to roar "To the moon, Alice," he was fondly remembering their wedding reception where they HAD been launched into orbit with the assistance of just such a cake.

I'm always amazed on the size of cakes that people have in their weddings. I mean, sometimes there is more cake then there are people! But I'll give credit where it is due, having a smoke effect on your cake just makes you awesome.

The Towering Inferno Cake just needs to have little fondant victims jumping off the top into little tulle nets.

@John : "We're just in the very, very small minority"? Meaning the minority are very very small?WHY are guys SO obsessed with size? My ex used to say, "anything more than a mouthful is a waste" (WHEN TALKING ABOUT CAKE.) =^O-O^=Anyone else see The Last Days of Pompeii in that collapsible cake?

See, this is the problem with our world today. You don't need to even have tasted the cake to be constantly comparing. Back in the old days you'd maybe see one or two wedding cakes - and that might be you best friends cake, or your siblings cake - before you got your own. Now the internet has made it possible for you to look at cake from anyone's wedding from anywhere in the world! Can't we all just be happy with the cake we're given?

wv "fingshe" - I think the wedding planner was using the ancient art of 'fingshe' when stepping up the photo for that last cake.

It might just be that I have a complete lack of a dirty mind but I totally didn't get the innuendo until I started reading the comments. x3 Then I re-read the post and found it much funnier. =3 The "small and overgrown" is the best.

wv - coning, what the chef did to the first cake before decorating it (cone)

A HA!!! The newest alternative to plastic flotsam for hiding a wreck... buy yerself a FOG MACHINE!!!Or, alternatively, serve a lot more alcohol and make the fog a perception rather than a reality! Niiiiiiiice!

"You don't need to even have tasted the (*BLEEP*) to be constantly comparing...you'd maybe see one or two (*BLEEP*) - and that might be you best friend's (*BLEEP*), or your sibling's (*BLEEP*)- before you got your own. Now the internet has made it possible for you to look at (*BLEEP*) from anyone's wedding from anywhere in the world! Can't we all just be happy with the (*BLEEP*) we're given?"

John, I'll assume asking us female types to leave was facetious. As a married man, I'm sure you know that while men will never stop to ask for directions, we women will never stoop to following them (if given by a man, anyway). :D

BTW, did anyone else see teapots in some of these cakes? (waggles eyebrows)

-Barbara Anne

Could someone work on this for me as I can only get so far with this thought: it's not the size of the innuendo, it's the motion of the notion.

Holy moly.. who on earth could make that first cake without ten ladders and a prayer? Who for that matter needs that much cake lol. You can never really have too much cake but that is just coma inducing to say the least. Wow. I am dying of laughter here at the commentary too lol.

Haha, that's my cake-- where you can't see my face but you're sure I'm thrilled... the really sad part is, THAT was the savior cake from a very accomodating grocery store bakery at the last minute. I went to pick up my $350 wedding cake from a "real" bakery... and found that it had apparently been done by a somnambulant six-year-old with a drinking problem.

(For the record, it's nearly 6 years later, and the cake he still gives me is juuuuuust right. ;-))

Word verif: soicadt. "SoICadt cake is adequate... but is there more underneath?"

lol. I can't wait to see how many "I hate you now! I'm never reading Cake Wrecks again!" coments you will recieve.For the record, I don't like this post as I think it is gross and innappropriate. But I absolutely LOVE 99% of the posts you do so I will never leave!

John, do you ever wonder who reads the 'posted by' line at the bottom? Just wondering.

By the way, I don't view CW for hours at a time, but not because of offense. Maybe my offense threshold is higher than that of some others, or maybe it's just that there are things happening in the world that truly are offensive and inappropriate, and not many take time out of their busy day to protest those. Irony can be pretty ironic.

So funny, John! And don't feel badly about being in the very, very small minority. ;-)And Captain Obvious made me snicker when I read his/her comment, thought "Duh!" and then caught the name. Perfect. Love it!

You should know that, for the last cake, about 90% or more is not actually cake, it's rubber. In Japan it's kind of a novelty to have some western elements in the wedding, including the cake. The facilities that hold these weddings sometimes have these huge rubber cakes in store. The cakes have an empty "slice" at the bottom that they fill in with real cake, so that the bride and groom can cut into it, and get their picture taken.

Hahaha I loved the last one especially since my parents had exactly the same kind of cake at their Japanese wedding! I think when you cut it, smoke rises out of the cake.... kind of like those ninja smoke bombs that they use in the movies lolol. If you want to get a taste of Japanese weirdness, you should go to www.wtfjapanseriously.com for some offbeat videos... lol

I don't think you're right in this case. Confectionery is a noun and means either a collection of sweets or a shop that sells them. Confectionary is the adjective of the word confection which is the way I used it. Unless I'm wrong. And I don't think I'm wrong.

That last cake is fake. Standard operating procedure in Japan is that venues own a stupidly huge fake cake they rent out over and over again. Every wedding they just replace the two inch square bit of real cake that the couple cuts. They don't even eat the bit they cut, they just cut it and get a picture. It's one of the traditions from the west they've adopted but don't quite get.

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